Gamers suicide, JT says 'get a life& Created 18 years ago2006-01-21 21:19:34 UTC by fearian

Somthing I pucked up from http://cad-comic.com/. At first I thought it was just a sad tale of a community loosing someone in a very real way, untill I read the second paragraph. I swear to god Jack Tompson knows no fucking limits.

From GamingHorizon.com:

"Earlier this month, gamer named Mitchell S. with the online screenname "Kuja105" who posts on a few online videogame forums (including GameFaqs.com and MetalGearSolid.org) committed suicide. On January 2 he posted a message in both forums detailing his intent to end his own life, citing overwhelming complications with school and finances.

A very brief period of initial disbelief was followed by a barrage of replies from fellow forum members pleading that he not take his life, trying to talk him out of it.

For days, no word was heard from Mitchell. Fearing the worst, members and administration from metalgearsolid.org began searching for contact information, spending hours on the phone trying to get in touch with him. Finally on January 4, Ryan K., an administrator at metalgearsolid.org, got him on the phone and spent hours desperately trying to talk him out of it.

Sadly, Mitchell soon ended his own life by consuming antifreeze and painkillers.

Later, members from the site contacted Mitchell's family to find out the grave news. They reported it to their online community, and posted a tribute to their passed friend on the front page of metalgearsolid.org."

Mr. Jack Thompson then sent in the following letter regarding the situation to MetalGearSolid.org, one of the forums frequented by Mitchell, where he was known well:
"Your "gamer friend" will find peace through the Lord, Jesus Christ, but sadly it's too late for that.

There is a void in every heart. You can fill it up with the things of God, or the things not of God. This unfortunate soul chose to fill it up with combat games. The playing of these video games is masturbatory activity, meaning senseless self-stimulation. If you gamers could use a dictionary you would know that that term is not necessarily a sexual one.

The real tragedy here extends beyond the life and death of this one fellow. There are literally millions of young people and young adults whose despair is deepend by turning to the things of this world and then finding them meaningless.

All of you gamers need to put down the controllers and get a life. The utter inanity of the vast majority of postings here shows how vapid "gaming" really is.

You are one of the cheerleaders for this wasting of time and the wasting of lives. Do you feel any remorse for having contributed to this "culture of death?" Of course not. Hey, let's all play MORE games, and ignore all the really productive things to do with our lives.

Let's pretend to be shocked that a gamer might descend into deeper depression, as his gamer "buds," knowing he was killing himself, couldn't figure out how to call 911 themselves for him. That would have involved leaving their computers I guess.

Sad. Sad for all of you."

If this where any more innapropriate, It would be Hitler speaking at a bar mitzvah.

For those not in the know (why not) jack tompson is an anti video games laywer who bases his cases on video games warping the minds of his defendees, leading to their crimes. He genuinly beleives that games are evil, and that a game like counterstrike would be able to teach a 14 year old kid how to shoot a sniper rifle. I calls GTA a genocide simulator and blamed it for a teenager shooting a policeman. at one point jacktompson tried to ban 18 rated games once and for all. Gaming webcomics such as VG cats and Ctrl-Alt-Del critisized his antics. untill in what could only be described as awsome, penny arcade pissed off jack so much he threataned to sue them. 4 times. Penny arcade donated 10,000 dollars to charity in Jacks name, (long backstory) and millions of gamers lept to their defense faxing, mailing, emailing and phoning the state of florida to have his lisenced revoked. read about it here and here

I know this is a lengthy post but I think this guy is a bitch and I cant let him get away with that can I?
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that guy is such a dick.. and unfortunate things like people committing homocide, suicide are just excuses for him to relate unrelated things to games...

so sue me

Jack Thompson's just a greedy attentionwhore. I actually don't think he believes too strongly about his twisted views of electronic entertainment. The man's outrageous.

I agree there, I think he uses Videogames as a bitch to get attention, and alledges to be christian to justify it.

I didnt post this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson#.22A_Modest_Video_Game_Proposal.22

VERYimformative and non biased - shows what a cunt he is by letting jak do the actions.

post it or buy the T-shirt...
I hate Jack Thompson.. sing it with me

I wish someone would just smack this guy in the face with a crowbar.

that would help his cause in such an attrosios way. I almost would beat him myself it it wern't for the fact that im a gamer and if a gamer did it he would claim himself to be even more right. even though all people really want to hit guys like him.

Attrocious.... Atrocious... Attrosious... how do you spell that? Nothing looks right!

I think there was a thread on this guy a while ago.

overwhelming complications with school and finances.

Where does it say anything about games being the problem in that sentence?

And yes Im sure we can all agree on that M_garg, I wonder how he would feel if we banned/made it illigal to do something that he liked doing.

Atrocius is the right word, even though it might not look right. Atrocity is the noun, which does look right.

Atrocious, actually, pronounced "er-Tro-shuuus". "Atrocius" would sound like "er-Tro-sheeus".

You are one of the cheerleaders for this wasting of time and the wasting of lives. Do you feel any remorse for having contributed to this "culture of death?"

Hahaha, that from a lunatic bible-basher? How ironic.

I almost would beat him myself it it wern't for the fact that im a gamer and if a gamer did it he would claim himself to be even more right.

Not if you hit him hard enough. Heh heh. We could destroy the body in some ironic way. I wonder if blood conducts heat well? Blood-cool somebody's rig. I'm sure Sari would like that.

He's an abomination of christianity.

"You will know them by their fruits." Possibly one of the most important verses in the Bible. It doesn't matter what you say you are- Christianity isn't a title you slap next to your name like "Ph, D"- it watters what you do. When people become christians, are "born again" as it were, the importance is that you attempt to be Christ-like- not be Jesus, like Jack's trying to make himself out to be, but to follow the examples regarding humility, kindness, patience, and piety.

The fruits I bear as a Christain are my Foundation- helping thousands of kids across the country have an easier and more enjoyable recovery in hospitals.

The fruits Jack bears are what you see on the news- wrath, pride, greed, and lies.

Which one bears fruit of Christianity? Which one bears fruit of the World?

"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep?s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit." Matthew 7:15-19

Thompson frequently makes use of character references, such as when he likened ESA head Doug Lowenstein to Joseph Goebbels, Hitler, and Saddam Hussein. (CBS interview)

C'mon, who above the age of about seven compares people to Hitler on the Internet, let alone in real life? The man's a joke.

Yes but he uses such over the top phrases to catch the attention of people in government. How many congressmen/women play games? I should hope they dont have time to! but If a well known Lawyer says games = evil...

He's just a huge waste of money and a real burden to society.

Me and Zombieloffe got interested in mavav.org (The fake Anti-Gaming Site) and we thought we should start our own, but it will be against ratings and uphold rights etc. Here's the details.

http://f-u-c-k-y-o-u.be <-- That would be the address.

Fellowship of Unanimous Compliance for Keeping Youth Obscurity Undeniable

The site isn't up yet but check back in a day or two, ZombieLoffe's using his l33t design skills to conjure up a great design. It'll also tell you loads more about what we are all about.

I read a recent interview with him in PC Powerplay. This interview did not correlate to anything that's been on the Internet. Essentially, Thompson summarised his case against video games by simply saying that "unlike Australia and other countries, America does not have a stringent age rating system" (paraphrased). Who's telling the truth here?

I admit, from all the stuff that's been on the Internet, Thompson seems like a grade-a arsewipe. Yet, if the interview is anything to go by, Thompson's crusade isn't as bad as we think it is.

The whole problem with age ratings is parents. There is no other reason, no other scapegoat, nothing: it is solely the parents responsibility to raise their child correctly. CASE FUCKING CLOSED.

People like Jack Thompson do exactly the opposite of they beleive they are doing, his pathetic arguments do nothing to prevent suicide and seem more suicide-provoking to me "get a life" "sad for all of you"? this man is the one of the saddest alive, what a dick.

I would laugh to see the word's "Fuck Jack Thompson!" appear at the end of a HL map.

Blood-cool somebody's rig. I'm sure Sari would like that.

That would pwn so hard. I need his blood!!!

Have you not seen some of his other interviews, Ant?

Games are beautiful! Games allow people to imagine. Games can be the best times of your life.

You know I played a game and I always wanted to be able to live in that sort of world.

Games don't kill...Parents who can't look after children properly kill...

I never even heard of this man until today and I say this...Shutup you loser, I can agree that some mentally ill children will copy games and say chop up a guy with a dildo. Well for every 1 mentally ill child there are 1000000000 normal sensible gamers who don't copy games. So you can't ban something that brings in so much money. Stuff you!!! Hahaha!

to ban adult games you must also ban adult videos, they do the same thing but MUCH more realistic, and banning videos would be fucking stupid

Oh dont worry, Jack will happily ban those too.

This guy ACTUALLY THINKS that the Sims is worse than GTA simply bacause some guy made a mod that removes bluring. He called it a rape simulator for pedophiles. nevermind that the sims have no genitalia and ther is no 'rape' command, or a mod for one. He went as far as accusing Will wright, the creator of supporting child pornography in games.

Thats fucking unbelivable.

The guy's a joke. I mean, really, he's like all the negative stereotypes of Americans all rolled into one: comically litigious, bible-bashing, and selfishly attention-seeking. Y'know, I reckon he's a fictional character, like Ali G. Yeah, that must be it.

What a fucktard. Worse than joe lieberman. IMO, if they think videogames have a bad influence on children, they should also be trying to ban tv which is just retarded.

What a dick. The one that sucided probebly sucided from another reason, not because of pc games. If he did then he must have had enough burden on himself already from his life that he would end it anyway. Most people sucide because they can't handle life, not because of games, and thats a fact.
Games may even help some for they are a break from tentions and stuff.

Besides these few subjects don't reflect the whole gamers community. I'm a good proof for that, I learnd English from computer games, and I'm very good in it, for my class at list.(don't mind the few spelling errors I sometimes make)
These few gamers were probebly insane already.

As for sims it's bad from other reasons(damn what can be intresting about ordering somebody to clean the dishes and go to work?)... but his reason is just dumb.

Edit:
I just noticed that the title of this thread says: gamers sucides, but only one did.

The guy may be an ass - but he sure sells T-Shirts!

So who gives a fuck, shirts a for the weak! Nudism baby - it's the bomb.

Ahem, reality check - yes! Okay, people like jacky boy here are total arsewipes, they always have and always will be like that. It may be harsh but people like this should get a vital organ chopped of (guess which one), just imagine a world without Jack, Bill O'reily and Michael Jackson - Bliss!

I don't quite understand. How is that poor guy's suicide related to video games?

There are thousands of people who end their own lives everyday, and most of them have never touched a game.

So it must be the cheese then. I am sure they all have eaten cheese at least once in their lives. So down with cheese. Kill all the cows! Burn dairy farmers at the stake!

I think it's a waste of space even discussing him. He's not worth the 1's and 0's of this thread, he's an attention seeking whore. What's worse is that he is heartless.

I feel this picture best describes him.

I don't quite understand. How is that poor guy's suicide related to video games?

Its not, jacks just used this tragic event in his petty fight against games. People like this usually have suppressed memories hidden away. Maybe his muumy did let him have a pacman when he was a youngin' and spanked hime every day? Who knows...

I wonder, how many gamers commit suicide each year.. There should be statistics on that..

"Your "gamer friend" will find peace through the Lord, Jesus Christ, but sadly it's too late for that.

This made me want to jump that dumb cunt in a dark alley with a bat. How the hell could such a bitch speak bout shit like that?? The fuckin bastard can't even show any sympathy for the poor guy...
Well I guess that's how such idiots are.. Always flaming gamers, no matter the circumstances.
I bet that he thinks that every gamer has potential to kill his relatives/freinds/himself someday. Screw him.

emails The Wallrus, asking him to make a Y.A.A.F.M bout Jack Thompson

Ctrl-Alt-Del does:

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"PONG San Andreas"
Hahahaaha!!

HA that's gold!

Thats old...

As the Guiness people would say "BRILLIANT!"

its old but great

gawd you people just dont read webcomics. THIS ones much better:

Enough. He's an idiot, we get it already.

lol. nicely put

OMG THIS THREAD MAKES ME SAD WHERES MY SHOTTY

What the hell is that Jaardsi?

What the hell is that Jaardsi?

Playing WoW... a lot.

Well , seeming it looks that JT has been 'Abducted' by christians! well , I think that when he bans the games , they get delivered to his house , he plays them and thinks 'Man these people are SAD because of What They are missing! but still , That Mod where it uncovers the blurs.. well did any1 notice THAT THEYRE STILL IN THEIR CLOTHES? HUH!
And also he'll hate HL2 cos' a prony idiot made a SICK mod where... Wel... Alyx is Nude! according to the screenies there is NO COVERING! I REAPEAT NO COVERING! *coughSICKcough oh yeah , WHY THE HELL DID THAT GUY COMMIT SUICIDE! freako -- freakout

Very coherent ---^

uh yeah... backs away

i r teh makkking sencscse of wot ws jst sed cos i are pant!